I see from #1328 and #379 that this is an annoyingly messy and, well, just plain annoying. I thought I'd file this bug report just in case it would present a new slant on the issue. I'm running a Gentoo installation with gtk+ 2.8.19 ~ $ locale week-1stday 19971201 ~ $ locale first_weekday 1 And yet orage's calendar starts on Monday.
Well, I agree. Anyway, your distro starts counting from 19971201, which is Monday and you ask to get first day, which is then Monday. So Orage starts with Monday. What does $ locale day give in your system? What is your LANG set to? You want first weekday to be Sunday?
~ $ echo $LANG en_US ~ $ locale day Sunday;Monday;Tuesday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday Yes, I'm US based and would like it to start on Sunday. I hadn't noticed that my start date was different from the others. Should I yell at Gentoo about this? I fear you'll get even more complaints over this...
Yes, indeed I think Gentoo is then starting this count from wrong date. If they change the counting to start from 19971130 instead, it should work. There might be another locale that works for you, but it is trial and error. I would try C and en_US.UTF-8, which both cause orage to start as Sunday in my Ubuntu system. But my $ locale week-1stday 19971130 $ locale first_weekday 1 Is correct and different to yours, so probably those do not help in your system.
setting dup
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1328 ***
I finally got a chance to settle this over in Gentoo-land (the wonky calendar was a nice daily reminder). It's a known bug, see: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120995 Just for the sake of completeness...
Moving all bugs to new Orage product.
*** Bug 7980 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***